Work Sucks, I Know

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I work at a ultra hip ping pong bar in Wisconsin. From time to time we get celebrities who enjoy a good game of table tennis. This particular night Frank Caliendo showed up after a stand up show. Frank is one of my favorite comedians and I was pumped up to meet him. He played for about an hour and sat down to eat. I am at the lower end of the totem pole at my job, consisting of picking up ping pong balls and empty cups, so it was going to be hard for me to get a chance to meet him. Two times in a row, almost back to back, a server dropped a tray of drinks on the ground, naturally the clean up is my job. As soon as I finished I noticed a belligerent girl hanging on Mr. Caliendo while he was eating so I hurried over. I was standing face to face with this sloppy mess and Frank Caliendo. Then I attempted to get this girl away saying her friends were looking for her when out of nowhere Frank looked at me and yelled for some space. Shortly after I got her away and to her friends my boss comes up to me with a roll of duct tape and tells me a urinal broke. I thought it was something minor but the tank was literally shattered. After I performed the best duct tape surgery man has ever seen I went out to see Mr. Caliendo left.
Andy Milwaukee

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I work at Petsmart and we allow people to bring in their pets while they shop. We get mostly dogs and very often to do their business all over the floor. Most people clean it up but once and awhile you’ll get the people that will just leave it there for us to clean up. So one day I noticed some dog poop and as I was going to clean it up I had to stop and jump on the registers. Once my line was gone I was going to go clean up the mess. I grabbed the supplies and as I was heading over there I noticed a customer see the poop. Instead of pushing their cart around it, they aimed their cart and ran right through it. This ground the poop into the floor and left a nice streak all the way down the aisle. Seriously, wtf.
Lauren K.

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I work in a grocery store deli. One day, I was waiting on a very friendly and chatty customer who I had never met before. As she starts leaving, she asks my name and says that someday she’s going to name one of her cats after me.
Maria R

I was holiday help at Target as a cashier once, and naturally I had a lot of crazies. But the absolute worst customer I ever had was on my last night. An older woman came through and paid in cash, and her change was $3. Well I only had 2 dollar bills left in my register, and I had sent out a request for more about a half hour ago but, being the holidays, the store was crazy busy so none of the managers had made it over yet. So I gave the woman the 2 dollar bills and four quarters, politely explaining the situation and apologizing for the inconvience. Well this woman had a spaz attack. She stared at me with the most shocked look on her face, then started flipping out screaming, yelling “I’m NEVER coming back here AGAIN this is SO unsatisfactory!!” over and over, and told me that I should’ve waited for my manager to come over. But busy as it was I had an entire lane full of people, all staring in shock at this psychopath. Sorry lady, but there’s no way I was gonna hold up the whole store just so you can have a bill. Never working at Target again.
Katie Sayles

I work as an IT guy for the psychology department. One day when I’m working, a TA comes running into my office begging for help in his classroom. When I get to the classroom I see 200 students waiting to take an exam and three panicking TAs at the front of the classroom crowded around the computer. They needed the projector for the exam and couldn’t start without it.
The issue? The computer needed to be turned on.
Kyle K

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One day while I was involved in a tedious, brain draining labeling at the counter of the campus bookstore/mini mart where I work my boss popped up to buy some snacks for her break. After asking me to ring her up I jokingly asked what would happen if I refused to ring her up, all while quickly completing the transaction.

In one of her frequent mood swings, she looked at me intensely and told me she would cut my working hours down to nothing because she was the boss and “That’s how it works” and laughed as she walked out for her break.
Victoria Stoner

For Christmas, my boss gave me a framed picture of his kid.
amanda A

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I work at a drive-thru starbucks, and yesterday, when there was no one in the store, a lady came in and asked where the drive-thru was. We pointed, and she promptly left the store, got in her car and came around the drive-thru.
d k

One time, when I was delivering pizzas for a living, I got to a house and they refused to tip me because the price of gas went up, as if that was my fault—or I had some other, magical way to bring them their pizza.
evan sirois

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A couple years ago, I graduated from college and got my first “grown-up” job in an office. This was the year where they had the kerfufle in Washington State over a bunch of non-Christian groups wanting to be able to put their holiday displays up in the capitol building, just like the Christians had traditionally been allowed to do. During lunch, my co-workers were chatting about the situation and my boss says “trust the atheists to ruin Christmas for everyone. I say we should just line them up against a wall and shoot them all.” I’m an atheist.
Amanda P.

I used to work in a toy store that also sold CDs of children’s music, and my boss wanted us to “display the merchandise” by always playing something we had in stock. Most of the year this wasn’t too bad. When I got sick of “Little Annoying Kids Sing The Beatles 5,” I could always switch to “Little Annoying Kids Sing Death Metal Classics 3” and all was well. The horror began right after Halloween when we had to start with the Christmas music. There was only one CD with about 15 songs on it, all with high pitched little kid voices signing “Jingle Bells,” on repeat, for two months.
Anon Ymous

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I climb telephone poles for a local cable company. One day after it had been raining I walked through a side yard full of what looked like dirt and climbed up the pole. It wasn’t until I was about done up there that I realized I had tracked dog poop all the way up and there were clumps of it on the pegs that are used to get up and down. Needless to say, by the time I got to the ground I was covered in pet mess.
Red R

We do takeout orders at the restaurant I work at and the other night, a lady came in and picked up a meal around 11pm. The next day she called in to complain that her food didn’t taste good. The catch? She was “too drunk” to eat it when she picked it up and tried to eat it 4 hours later at 3am after leaving it sit out the entire time. My manager ended up giving her a refund just so she would stop calling the restaurant to complain about it.
Caitlin Brian

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A dad told my supervisor that he didn’t want his kids in my ski lesson again because I did such a horrible job the day before. I had never seen those kids in my life and had the day off the day before.
Sheridan DeGraffenreid

I use to work at a local Jamba Juice and one day while working the register a guy orders a large smoothie then moves to one of the lobby tables and takes a seat to wait. The next guy in line orders a pretzel and also goes to the lobby to wait taking a seat across from the first guy. No biggy. Less than ten minutes later the guy that ordered the pretzel comes back in shirtless, holding a large smoothie, and asking the name of the guy that ordered before him. I more confused as to why this guy wasn’t wearing a shirt tell him the customer’s name and ask why only to have him tell me that the other customer had stabbed him outside in the parking lot. It was only then that I realized his arm was bleeding all over our mustard packets. In the end, I figure this guy was the real winner since somehow in the altercation he ended up with the other guys smoothie.
V N

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I was working at a haunted house and my job was to basically get violently murdered every time a new group of kids came in. One time as the kids were clearing out, one of their dads groped me.
Elle B

A few weeks ago at the clothing store I work for, a woman came in demanding a refund for some destroyed-style jeans her daughter had purchased, which she claimed were damaged. I politely asked her if she could please point out the damage for me and hand me her receipt (which she didn’t have). She replied by asking me if I was “f*cking retarded” and motioned to the intentional rips down the front of the jeans.
Shannon C

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My boss (the CEO) just asked me to “fix” an excel spreadsheet, because there were too many ###‘s in it.
J C

I had a job at a pizza shop and it was a miserable experience, but I told myself I wouldn’t quit until I had a new job lined up. However, one slow evening while doing inventory in the freezer, my manager decided it would be oh so funny to lock me inside and turn out the lights. I spent five minutes in complete darkness and in below freezing temperatures. I quit the next day.
Kyra K

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I work at a bakery. One of my jobs is to answer the phone and answer customers’ questions. This wouldn’t be such a bad problem if it weren’t for the fact that those who don’t share my phone duties love to blast the music in the bakery and use their equipment very loudly, and the phone’s volume itself is very low. One day, I got a call from a rather soft-spoken woman. I couldn’t make out what she was saying, so I asked her to repeat it. I couldn’t hear her the second time, either, so I let her know that I was going to a more quiet place (which I was) to see if I could hear her better. I think she misheard me. As I got to the quieter place and turned up the volume of the phone as far as it could go, she screamed, “WELL IF YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IF YOU HAVE THEM YOU SHOULDN’T BE F*CKING WORKING THERE!” and she hung up.
Bayley Namelast

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My first job was at a pet store. A woman came in telling me that her dog was having stomach issues, and that her vet told her to feed it chicken and rice.

She then explained to me that she just couldn’t afford to buy him Chinese food every night. I laughed until I realized she was serious.
Crypt Rat

I work in a hole-in-the-wall bar. One day, a guy walks in and orders a beer. As I hand him the beer, he gets an indescribable look on his face, and walks to the back room to play pool. I didn’t think anything of it, really, but a few minutes later I began to notice a horrible smell in the bar. Evidently the guy had shit his pants when he’d walked up to the bar and, rather than clean himself up or leave immediately, he got the beer and played an entire game of pool, leaving streaks of shit in front of the bar and around the entire pool table.
Jess H

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I work at a large department store in the electronics section. One time, i was doing some cleaning, when i noticed a man climbing the racks that held the TV’s. I asked him “Excuse me sir?” and he promptly responded with “Don’t worry, i am just plugging in this microwave”. Confused, i walked off and called a manager, but before i could even get through to them, i heard the microwave in use, and went back over to see what was happening. The man was using the microwave to cook his noodles. I started to laugh, and in the middle of my hysterics, he walked over to the counter and grabbed at the store pager. Before i could reach him, he spoke into the microphone, for the whole store to hear “Hey Brett, your noodles are ready at the electronics section”. I had a hard time explaining how this was allowed to happen to my manager.
M J

I work on the helpdesk of an IT company, and one day my boss tells me that one of the hard drives in one of the servers has failed. He asked me to go into the server room and find out which drive had a red light on it, as opposed to a green light. There are around 200 hard drives, and I am red-green colourblind. I spent 20 minutes searching for a red light before I gave up.
Chris Gill

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I work as a reporter for a small newspaper, which is actually a pretty cool job. But, because we are small, I sometimes field customer calls. One time a lady called with two complaints. She wanted to cancel her newspaper because there wasn’t enough news in the paper, which was, of course, a legitimate complaint. Her other beef? Not enough obituaries.
Ben Montgomery

So, I work at an ice cream shop. I was working the drive-thru intercom, and I had to pee REALLY bad. Pretty much to the point that it was all I could think about. The next car rolled up, and instead of saying the usual “Hi, can I help you?” I accidentally said “Hi, can I go to the bathroom?” The guy in the car said “I don’t know, can you?” I ran straight to the bathroom, and didn’t tell anyone until a while later. The girl who helped him was a confused why one guy kept making bathroom references at her.
ice cream girl :)

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So I work as a cashier at a large electronics store. One day while I was working a man comes up to pay for some ink and a few cables. As I am giving him his receipt and his items he hands me a some money and says, “I think you deserve a tip.” After he leaves I look at the money and its a $1,000,000,000 bill with a bunch of religious writing on it about how money is evil and only religion can save you.
Mike W

I work as a security guard at a hospital. The other night I called up to a room to “fix a problem” with one of the TVs. Apparently, we get soft-core porn on that channel, and the patient was refusing to let us turn it off
T Shaw

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One day at work we were having a really slow day and for some reason my co-worker decided that since I was planning on studying medicine I wanted to see her eczema. I really didn’t.
M I

I got a summer job at a Greek restaurant while home from college. A lady came in one day and placed an order for a German salad. My friend explained that we only serve Greek salads that come with “lettuce, tomato, olives, peppers, and feta cheese.” She insisted that was not what she wanted and asked for a German salad. My friend countered by offering her a “different” salad, telling her the same ingredients in reverse order: “feta cheese, peppers, olives, tomato, and lettuce.” She ordered that one instead.
Zach R

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I work at an electrical supply house. One day my phone extension rings with a co-workers name on the caller I.D. Thought i would be a little funny so i pick up the phone and answer “City Morgue, you kill ‘em we chill ‘em.” It was a customer on the phone my co-worker had transfered to me.
Dylan Jones

I work as the mascot for the local semi-pro baseball team in my small town (I’m a big chicken). It was “Kids Night” at the ball park and a group of about 20 youngsters decided to get the chicken’s autograph. I happily obliged and proceeded to sign their programs, hats, and baseballs. Then one kid asked “Could you sign my underwear, Mr. Chicken?” I immediately got up and turned to leave, but the other children decided they wanted their undergarments signed as well. The group followed me around for the next 2 innings chanting “Sign our underwear!” I got a lot of weird looks from parents.
Dakota W

I work at a “high end” pet store. We sell dog clothes (I know), expensive food for dogs and cats, etc. A woman came in the other day and asked if we sold any food in a pink bag because her dog “only likes pink”…
-Elizabeth F.

In High School I worked at a leather store and one Saturday I was the greeter at the door. I really wasn’t paying attention when a woman who looked like a cross between Charles Manson and Hilary Clinton came through the door, threw a bucket of blood on me, screamed “Death to the cow thieves!” and ran out. I got to go home early because of possible mental trauma. Totally worth it.
-Ryan B.

A work at a phone sex line… one day my brother called.
-Courtney L.

I used to work in a small town selling ice cream from one of those refrigerated bicycles. As I was riding down a little alley, a man called me from his window. He asked if he could take a picture. (This wasn’t unusual; it was a new business, so people were always fascinated when they saw the bike for the first time.) I pulled the bike up closer, and he told me to get off. I backed away so he could take a picture of the bike, but he instead took a picture of me. He then told me to take off my shoes and come closer. I looked at him quizzically. He tapped on the windowsill and said, “Put your foot right here. Can I tickle it? Please?” I refused and told him I needed to leave because I was in the way of the car behind me. I hopped on the bike and started pedalling away with him screaming, “PLEASE? JUST ONCE! PLEASE?”
-Courtney S.

I work at a gas station and today I had someone ask which of our candy bars were the “freshest”. I thought it was a joke so I laughed and asked if he was serious. Turns out he was and I’ve never seen someone more offended.
-Tom L.

I used to work at a pet store. One day I was starving in front of the store by the cash register. I had no food, so long story short I lost all dignity and began gorging on dog biscuits. Well, the manager found out and made me explain to her about where the dog biscuits went. I explained to her with a completely straight face that I ate them all. Then she made me repeat the story in front of her to some guy from loss prevention. Then that guy made me write a letter to corporate about the same thing. Then I got fired. Now everyone wants to know why I’m not working for the pet store anymore. I hate everything.
-Shane C.

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